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'''Chhaya Datar''' (also '''Chāyā Dātāra''' born 1944) is an [[India]]n activist, writer and [[Feminism|feminist]]. Datar writes in [[Marathi language|Marathi]] and English.<br />
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== Career ==<br />
Datar began writing and becoming politically active out of frustration as living as a [[housewife]].<ref name="Tharu 1993">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OjZYf9Xf9bcC&lpg=PA495&dq=%22chhaya%20datar%22&pg=PA495#v=onepage|title=Women Writing in India: The twentieth century|last1=Tharu|first1=Susie J.|last2=Lalita|first2=Ke|publisher=The Feminist Press at The City University of New York|year=1993|isbn=9781558610293|location=New York|pages=495|language=en}}</ref> She wrote her first collection of short stories in [[Marathi language|Marathi]], ''Goshta Sādhī'' ''Saral Sopī'' in 1972 and her second, ''Vartulacha Ant'' in 1977.<ref name="Tharu 1993" /> She is also one of the founders of a publishing group based in [[Mumbai|Bombay]], called Stri Uvach (A Woman Said).<ref name="Tharu 1993" /> After her short stories, she went on to work on studying [[Feminism|women's issues]].<ref name="Tharu 1993" /> In ''Waging Change: Women Tobacco Workers in Nipani Organize'' (1989), Datar examines women's struggles for both political and economic justice in [[Nipani]] through the context of cigarette workers.<ref name="Mohanty 1995">{{Cite journal|last=Mohanty|first=Chandra Talpade|date=Summer 1995|title=Book Reviews|journal=Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society|volume=20|issue=4|pages=1058–1061|doi=10.1086/495039}}</ref> In ''[[Signs (journal)|Signs]]'', reviewer [[Chandra Talpade Mohanty]], writes that Datar's ''Waging Change'' is an "elegantly crafted, detailed analysis of the organizational history of women ''bidi'' (hand-rolled cigarette) workers."<ref name="Mohanty 1995" /><br />
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In her autobiographical story, ''In Search of Myself'', she examines her own experiences and describes how communing with one's own tribal space allows women to have a sense of freedom.<ref name="Ghosh 2004">{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GMvIZq8JnasC&lpg=PA260&dq=%22chhaya%20datar%22&pg=PA261#v=onepage|title=New Lights on Indian Women Novelists in English|last=Ghosh|first=Anita|publisher=Sarup & Sons|year=2004|isbn=9788176254779|editor-last=Prasad|editor-first=Amar Nath|location=New Delhi|pages=260–261|language=en|chapter=Woman on Top: A Study of Feministic Consciousness of Modern Indian Women Novelists}}</ref> She also describes in this story how tribal women find themselves by sharing their own experiences.<ref name="Ghosh 2004" /> Datar also discusses [[Dalit feminism]] in her works.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-187327101.html|title=Articulations of Injustice and the Recognition-Redistribution Debate: Locating Caste, Class and Gender in Paid Domestic Work in India|last=Chigateri|first=Shraddha|date=January 2007|work=Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal|access-date=7 August 2018|url-access=subscription |via=HighBeam Research}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><br />
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Datar has been published in ''[[Contemporary Sociology]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Datar|first=Chhaya|date=1988|title=Early FlushA Decade of Women's Movement in India: Collection of Papers Presented at a Seminar Organized by Research Centre for Women's Studies, S.N.D.T. University, Bombay, coordinated by DesaiNeera. Bombay: Himalaya Publishing House|journal=Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews|language=en|volume=33|issue=6|pages=642–645|doi=10.1177/009430610403300605|issn=0094-3061}}</ref> ''[[Indian Journal of Gender Studies]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Datar|first1=Chhaya|last2=Prakash|first2=Aseem|date=September 2001|title=Engendering Community Rights: A Case for Women's Access to Water and Wasteland|journal=Indian Journal of Gender Studies|volume=8|issue=2|pages=223–246|doi=10.1177/097152150100800205}}</ref> ''[[Economic and Political Weekly]],''<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Datar|first=Chhaya|date=2007|title=Failure of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Maharashtra|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=42|issue=34|pages=3454–3457|jstor=4419939}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Datar|first=Chhaya|date=1999|title=Non-Brahmin Renderings of Feminism in Maharashtra: Is It a More Emancipatory Force?|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=34|issue=41|pages=2964–2968|jstor=4408509}}</ref> and has contributed to the journal published by [[Men Against Violence and Abuse]] (MAVA), ''Purush Spandana''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2489514511.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811032435/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2489514511.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 August 2018|title=Diwali men's magazine invites contributions from women|date=20 October 2011|work=Hindustan Times|access-date=10 August 2018|url-access=subscription |via=HighBeam Research}}</ref> She released ''Tarihi Shesh'' on [[International Women's Day]] 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mumbailive.com/en/entertainment/book-launching-of-tarihi-sheshprashna-at-dadar-8858|title=Chhaya Datar unveils her new book|date=2017|work=Mumbai Live|access-date=2018-08-09|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Selected bibliography ==<br />
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* {{Cite book|title=Goshṭa sādhī, saraḷa, sopī|publisher=Menakā Prakāśana|year=1973|location=Pune|language=mr|oclc=31095346}}<br />
* {{Cite book|title=Mītaruṇī|publisher=Abhinava Prakāśana|year=1979|location=Mumbai|language=mr|oclc=499533971}}<br />
* {{Cite book|title=Waging Change: Women Tobacco Workers in Nipani Organize|publisher=Kali for Women|year=1989|isbn=978-8185107110|location=New Delhi}}<br />
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